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The Ghostchaser

Armenia's History Is Hidden in the Hills and Forests of Samvel Karapetian's War-Torn Land, and He's Made It His Mission to Find It. But to What End?

LAT July 22, 2001

By THOMAS DE WAAL, Thomas de Waal is a freelance international correspondent based in London. He is working on a book on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, which will be published by New York University Press next year

Night falls over the monastery of Yeghishe Arakyal as a bonfire crackles in a 17th century fireplace. Far below, a river surges. An owl hoots. Then, something else: a faint patter of Armenian voices.

• In the darkness, the pale shapes of the seven monastery chapels press against one another like the hulls of ships. Three figures stand above a low stone doorway into one of the chapels, their faces close to the upper arch. One of the women holds a flashlight, and its beam falls onto the inscription above the door. Another stands with pen poised above a pad of paper. A tall man with a big, bald forehead capped by a navy-blue-and-orange wool hat reads aloud the Armenian letters, one by one.

• By all rights, Samvel Karapetian should have been exhausted. He'd spent the day hiking through a timel

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  Armenia: Politically Touchandgo Power Bevy Gets Other Russia-Based Owner

  After months of speculation, the Electricity Networks of Armenia, the power group of actors whose excise hike dreary off big anti-government protests this summertime, reportedly has a new owner — the Tashir Board. The Moscow-based property company thing is celebrated by one of the world's wealthiest entrepreneurs, Armenia-born Samvel Karapetyan.

  With this negotiation, ENA longing have passed into hands deemed safe for the Armenian government: According to Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, the government itself asked Karapetyan to purchase the company make sure of its prior owner, the Kremlin-linked Inter RAO, expressed a desire to sell.

  The move could have frivolous benefits for Yerevan. Prior to the sale, the government had promise it would cover the cost of price increases for many consumers. But mingle, Karapetyan has indicated think it over he inclination use his "personal resources" to help the government provide verve subsidies, media reported.

  ENA's offer has fiercely murky doorway, however. Though the Tashir Unit, headquartered in Moscow, has antique offi

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1845142122264National Archives of Armenia, fund 53, list 1, file 3811, pp. 5-6; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 495.1847146109255National Archives of Armenia, fund 53, list 1, file 3814, pp. 97-98; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 495.1849152141293National Archives of Armenia, fund 53, list 1, file 3818, pp. 97-98; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 495.185210190191National Archives of Armenia, fund 53, list 1, file 3819, pp. 106-107; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 495.186128National Archives of Armenia, fund 53, list 1, file 3835, pp. 148-149. Also see fund 56, list 1, file 4254, p. 11; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 495.186668284223507National Archives of Armenia, fund 53, list 1, file 3848, p. 57; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 495.1872321274595Another statistical source reports 435 inhabitants (National Archives of Armenia, fund 53, list 1, file 3859, pp. 161-162).National Archives of Armenia, fund 53, list 1, file 3872, pp. 62-63; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 495.1874477National Archives of Armenia, fund 53, list 1, f